Renewable Energy

Tanzania’s Largest Solar Power Project Springs Forward

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  Tanzania’s got some of the best solar power potential in the world, and it’s starting to make use of that, while leapfrogging dirty energy options of the past (i.e. fossil fuels and nuclear energy). Enjoy this repost from sister site CleanTechnica: [repostus hash=f1f1c40fb11b991ae3f722a9c05822f6 title=Tanzania%26%238217%3Bs%20Largest%20Solar%20Power%20Project%20Springs%20Forward host=Clean%20Technica short=17YLR]

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In Germany, Rooftop & Community Solar is Powering the Country (& Creating Thousands of Jobs)

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  Renewable energy (and especially solar) policies of the last decade or so have turned cloudy, northerly Germany into a country rich in solar power… literally. Millions of individuals benefit from rooftop solar and community-owned solar. Solar is bringing down the price of electricity in some situations. And all of this is creating a hefty

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Cheap Solar Energy Threatening Fossil Fuel & Nuclear Lobby in Germany

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  Yep, times have changed. Aggressive renewable energy (especially solar) policies have made rooftop solar power more competitive than fossil fuels or nuclear energy in Germany. And that has the fossil fuel and nuclear industry pulling all the strings they can to try to kill this democratized electricity revolution in Deutschland. [repostus hash=515137636ca1caa273dbc6674e6767bf title=German%20Solar%3A%20Mission%20Too%20Well%20Accomplished%2C%20from%20Perspective%20of%20Fossil%2FNuclear%20Lobby%20(Reader%20Comment) host=Clean%20Technica

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Germany: Aiming for 52 GW of Solar PV by 2020.. On Target

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  Germany is leading the world in installed solar power, and it’s actually planning a lot more for the years to come. Here’s more from sister site CleanTechnica on Germany’s solar power goals — to hit 52 GW of installed solar PV by 2020 — and its progress so far. [repostus hash=aee3fa1eaf761a3ca64b845e71dd3d86 title=Germany%20Right%20on%20Schedule%20with%20PV%20Capacity%20Growth host=Clean%20Technica short=182VN]

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India Wind Energy Potential 20-30 Times Bigger than Thought

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  India apparently has a TON more wind energy potential than previously thought, according to a new study by the U.S. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL). Here’s more from sister site CleanTechnica: [repostus hash=84026f856237812c8767c7fbead47a73 title=New%20Study%3A%20India%20Wind%20Energy%20Potential%2020-30%20Times%20Greater%20than%20Official%20Estimates host=Clean%20Technica short=17YMH]

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Santorum, Gingrich, Romney Get Dogged for Clean Energy & Global Warming Ignorance by Colbert (VIDEO)

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  Following up on Tom’s great post on Santorum’s global warming denial, Colbert has a great segment completely dogging him for his belief that ‘plants benefit from global warming’ — below the Colbert video, also checking out a great and funny debunking of this claim from Peter Sinclair. In addition to nailing Santorum for his

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Solar Startup Looking to Cut Cost of Solar Panels 50%

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  A U.S. solar startup named Twin Creeks Technologies just “unstealthed” yesterday, and it did so in a big way. The solar startup is looking to make solar considerably cheaper with breakthrough/disruptive changes to the solar cell manufacturing process. There’s more detail on this solar startup’s cost-cutting solar cell manufacturing process available on sister site

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Clean Energy Needed (NOW) to Stop Global Warming (.. Natural Gas Not a Good Option)

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  A couple days ago, over on sister site CleanTechnica, I reposted a Grist piece on a new study by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold and climate scientist Ken Caldeira. The post and new study were about what energy transition is needed to address global warming this century. The basic conclusions of it all (also

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Green News of the Day (VIDEO)

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Some top green news from around from the past day or so: Global Warming   Heartland associate taught ‘biased’ climate course at Ottawa university  An associate of the Heartland Institute, the thinktank devoted to discrediting climate change, taught a course at a top Canadian university that contained more than 140 false, biased and misleading claims about

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Top Clean Energy News: World's Largest Offshore Wind Farms Going Up; Solar PV Reduces Price of Electricity; 70% of New Power in Europe from Renewable Energy…

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I want to start covering clean energy news much more here on Planetsave, but as they say, “so much to do, so little time.” Also, since we cover that extensively on sister site CleanTechnica, I just sort of assume you all can easily pop over there and subscribe to that page for news on this

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MUST-WATCH Video of Senators Investigating Scientific Consensus of Human-Caused Global Warming

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  This video is a little long, which is why it’s gotten me awhile to post on it. However, after watching it, I am labeling it a MUST-WATCH. If you think it’s too long, just watch a few minutes, at least. The whole thing, really, in one awesome segment after another. Senator Franken and Senator

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Climate Change a Top Priority for U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)

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  Originally posted on Climate Progress, with only the photo added: by Zachary Rybarczyk Developing countries (including China) are expected to account for more than 90% of global energy growth in the next 30 years.  The U.S Agency for International Development (USAID) is addressing the urgent need for sustainable, clean economic growth in these regions

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WWF's 100% Renewable Energy Plan Gets Discussed in UAE

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  by WWF Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – At the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) held in Abu Dhabi this week, WWF Director General Jim Leape called for agencies, governments and industry to proactively collaborate in transitioning towards a sustainable energy future on a global level, flagging up WWF’s vision of a world powered by 100% renewable

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San Francisco Bank of America ATM Machines Turned into "Truth Machines"

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  News: “An activist group has taken it upon themselves to turn San Francisco Bank of America ATM machines into ‘Automated Truth Machines’ by using overlay stickers that point out where they say BofA invests its own resources,” NBC Bay Area reports last weekend. 85 ATMS got hit. An what were they hit with? “Where users

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Longing for a Sustainable + Creative Live/Work/Travel Situation? I Know I Was!

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  Being a vagabond is great and all, but I also believe in community and sustainability! How could I accomplish all parts of my equation at once? I mean, isn’t community and sustainability accomplished by living in one location with a group of people, following models of communal or group living, farming, and running co-ops? And isn’t

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Pumping Water into a (Dormant) Volcano to Make Power — Newest Geothermal Project

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[Updated article, Jan. 18, 2012, with correction, see end note] Geothermal power has had a few setbacks in recent years: technical challenges and concerns that high-pressure pumping of water onto bedrock triggers earthquakes being the biggest ones (possibly two 2009 projects, one in California and one in Basel, Switzerland, were stopped over earthquake concerns). But,

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Manufacturing Solar Cells Just Became 50% More Efficient

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  As the New Year gets rolling, consider raising a toast to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Despite suffering repeated funding cuts in recent years, the Department of Energy-funded lab, based in Colorado, has recently been churning out technological breakthroughs at a breakneck pace. Last month, it announced the development of the first solar cell

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U.S. Wants Clean Energy!

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  Nathan Schock of sister site The Inspired Economist writes: “Apparently, Americans aren’t getting the message that renewable energy is dead. Following the Solyndra bankruptcy and the avalanche of negative news coverage, 90 percent of the American public still thinks that developing sources of clean energy should be a very high (30%), high (35%) or

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Facebook's New Datacenter

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Unfriend Coal Campaign Breathes a Sigh of Happiness Very near the Arctic Circle, in Luleå, Sweden, Facebook is working on its first datacenter outside the United States. Free cooling from this frigid environment and being near renewable hydropower in the area, this more progressive location is is showing the datacenter will be greener than normal

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Chance to Win Vespa! (from Wind Power Innovator)

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Energy costs just keep on rising, with only short respites that allow us to stay complacent to pending environmental and energy shortage crises.

This has an effect on all of us every day. Even if we don’t drive and we power our house with clean energy sources like wind and solar energy, which use “free” fuel, the prices of everything are affected by rising dirty energy prices. Transportation of goods and electricity costs rise for most people and businesses, and those costs are passed on to everyone.

But, if we jump on the clean, green energy bandwagon now, at least, we can at least revel in our own electricity and transportation savings.

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Green Economy Board Game!

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A friend of Planetsave, Scott Cooney of GreenBusinessOwner.com, has developed a green economy board game, which will be launching for the holiday season later this year. In the game, players are impact investors shooting for the best triple bottom line return on their investments in the state of Hawai’i, where, currently, 90% of the state’s electricity comes from burning diesel fuel.

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Current Extremism and it's Toll on the Environment

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A few weeks ago we were sorely reminded of the extremism of the majority of the current Republican candidates. Among many other alarming things said, Republicans suggested eliminating or privatizing: FEMA, NASA, the EPA, the Federal Labor Relations Board, Medicaid and food stamps. Herman Cain promised not to appoint any Muslims who want to kill Americans to his cabinet. Michele Bachmann supports states’ rights on gay marriage, but also supports a constitutional amendment outlawing it. Rick Santorum wants to “a system of discipline” to “punish” gay soldiers, which suggests that his problem with pornographic Google results is not likely to abate. Tim Pawlenty views Iraq as “one of the shiniest examples of success in the Middle East.”

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